Guedelon castle is nearly finished
>>64688978'ery noicei just like castles, they make me happy.we should remove houses, everyone should have their own castle.
>guys will see this and just think "hell yeah"
>knyghts really live like this and don't see any issue
>>64689004It's going to be a wedding venue, isn't it?
>>64688978ngl, the stone they used looks like absolute shit.
>>64689027there's a whole village of craftsmen supporting the construction around itthey get 300,000 tourists a year
>>64689033they're quarried locally, what is wrong with them?
>>64688986but a castle is just a house with a wall
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>>64689004it's painted now
>>64689033It'll get prettier with age.
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>>64688978>a second tower has finished construction at Guedelon
>>64688978How many people have worked on it? Could it have been done faster if a landowner put their weight behind it back in the day?
>>64689027A castle would be a cool place to hold your wedding, so sure, I can see that happening.>>64689033It's locally sourced stone and period style masonry. It's not maybe the sexiest castle ever, but it's appropriate and functional for a smaller military garrison of this kind. You could maybe slap on an outer layer of white masonry to make it look more smooth and uniform, but I think this looks nicer and has more character.>>64689396It's largely been a semi-hobby project, some professors and scholars decided that it would just be a really cool thing to do in their off-time, but also that it would be a nice example of practical archeology which would help give some insight on how to do masonry for antique buildings like these (many original ones need reparation work).Being done by a smaller group of people in their free time, with some occasional volunteers, it's of course taken a lot of time. Back in the day, with a full force of paid carpenters, masons, etc, you could have gotten this kind of small castle done in a couple of years.
